These geographic features made it difficult for Greek kingdoms to unite.
What are mountains and islands?
100
Requirement for citizenship in Ancient Greece.
What is adult, free, male.
100
Description of the religion of Ancient Greece.
What is polytheistic?
100
Rome began as a small city-state but eventually grew into a large _________ when they conquered the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.
What is empire?
100
Government position of the Roman Republic who was selected by the Senate during times of war. In charge of the military during this time and could only serve for 6 months.
What is a Dictator?
200
Name for Greek city-states.
What is a polis?
200
Form of government where all citizens were able to vote on all laws and decisions.
What is Direct Democracy?
200
Plato's most famous student, believed people should a happy medium, and helped tutor the great Emperor of Greece.
Who is Aristotle?
200
Built by the Romans, helped them unite their territories and improve trade.
What are roads?
200
Position of the Roman Republic whose job it was to supervise the business of government and command the armies. There were 2 of them, were appointed by the Senate, and had to agree with each other to take action.
What are Consuls?
300
Famous Greek city-state whose society was more free, and more focused on culture and trade.
What is Athens?
300
Famous blind poet supposed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
300
School established Athenian Philospher, Plato.
What is the Academy?
300
A long trade route that extended about 4,000 miles from China in the East to the Mediterranean Sea in the West. Connected the different classical civilizations (and later civilizations as well)
What is the Silk Road?
300
Sea that surrounds the Italian Peninsula.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
Form of government in which people can vote. 1st known was established in Athens, Greece.
What is Democracy?
400
Famous Greek/Athenian philosopher known for questioning people to make them think. Eventually was put on trial for corrupting the city's youth, condemned to death by drinking hemlock juice.
Who was Socrates?
400
Golden age of Greece during and after their great emperor, influenced by the mixing of cultures from Asia, the Middle East, Greece, and Egypt.
What is Hellenistic Age?
400
Time of “Roman Peace.” This was the 200-year Golden Age of Rome in which there was extensive trade and great achievements in art, literature, math, and science.
What is Pax Romana?
400
Members of the landholding upper-class of Rome.
What are Patricians?
500
Famous Greek city-state whose society was centered around the military.
What is Sparta?
500
Famous Athenian/Greek philosopher that condemned democracy and believed the idea society would have 3 classes (laborers, soldiers, philsopher rulers), wrote the book "the Republic," and set up a school.
Who is Plato?
500
Famous leader that established the first great Empire of Greece by his 20s that included Greece, Egypt, parts of the Middle East, all the way to India.
What is Alexander the Great.
500
Written set of laws that stated the rules of behavior for members of Roman society. Although the laws favored the wealthy, these laws created stability (order) since they were displayed in public for all to see.
What are the Twelve Tables?
500
Most powerful government body of Ancient/Classical Rome. Made up of 300 members from the upper class, passed laws for the Roman republic.